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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CARL SIPMAN, or NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND.

SUPPORT FOR-B'ICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,260, dated October 26, 1897.

Application fil d April 27, 1896. Serial No 589,332. (No model.) Patented in England March 9, 1895, No. 5,030, and in Germany July 13. 1895,1T0-43,394.

specification.

My invention has relation to bicycle-supports, my object being to produce a device of this character which will be simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and light and durable in use.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, the device being shown in full lines in the position for use and in dotted lines when not in use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a portion of a bicycle-frame, my device being attached thereto by means of a collar 2, whose sections are held in place by bolts 3 3. The lower section of the collar 4 is provided with a solid wedge-shaped portion 5, having channels in its face, in which are pivotally securedthe legs 6 6 of the supporter.

A fiat spring 7 is secured by a screw 8 to the wedge-shaped portion and passes behind the said portion, dividing into two fingers 9 and 10, which are bent so as to always rest upon the upper edge 11 of the legs 6.

The device is shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1 when not in use, the springs holding the legs in the position indicated by dotted lines. When it is desired to use the supporter, the legs 6 6 are drawn down to the position shown in full lines, the fiat springs serving to hold them in the operative position.

I claim 1. A bicycle-support comprising a collar adapted to be secured to the bicycle-frame, a depending portion integral with the lower section of the collar, said portion being provided with channels in which the supportinglegs are pivoted, a spring secured to the lower portion of the depending section, and terminating in bifurcated portions, which rest upon each supporting-leg and hold it in any desired position.

2. A bicycle-support comprising a collar adapted to be secured to the bicycle-frame, a depending wedge-shaped portion integral with the lower section of the collar, said portion being provided wit-h diverging channels in which the supporting-legs are pivoted, a spring secured to one face of the wedgeshaped portion of the depending section, and terminating in bifurcated portions, which rest upon each supporting-leg and hold it in any desired position.

CARL SIPMAN. Witnesses:

THOS. H. 000K, WILLIAM B. WATTS. 

